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There is apparently a [http://www.dreamtime.auz.net/default.asp?PageID=68 dreamtime myth] that the Koala can be eaten but "his skin may not be removed or his bones broken until after he is cooked"; if the taboo is broken drought will come.  Another version of the story states that "the blacks might eat the flesh of the bear, because it was good, but they might not skin it as they skinned common animals. (p. 267)"  [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-587X%28196424%2975%3A4%3C260%3ATBATWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C J.S. Ryan, The Bear and the Water: a study in mythological eytomology, Folklore 75 (1964), p. 260-8]

There is apparently a [http://www.dreamtime.auz.net/default.asp?PageID=68 dreamtime myth] that the Koala can be eaten but "his skin may not be removed or his bones broken until after he is cooked"; if the taboo is broken drought will come.  Another version of the story states that "the blacks might eat the flesh of the bear, because it was good, but they might not skin it as they skinned common animals. (p. 267)"  [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1258997 J.S. Ryan, The Bear and the Water: a study in mythological eytomology, Folklore 75 (1964), p. 260-8]